Monday, July 25, 2016

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to Xubuntu 16.04?



I'm having Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my desktop but now I want to upgrade to Xubuntu 16.04. My software updater gave me a 15.10 update but it gave me error of repositories. How to manually update Ubuntu 14.04 to Xubuntu 16.04 without losing any data?



I don't think you can update from Ubuntu to Xubuntu. But you can simply sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop to get everything that xubuntu would install.



About your upgrade: (X)Ubuntu 16.04 isn't released yet. You could force the update on the dev version by running sudo do-release-upgrade -d.




But since you had to ask that, I would recommend holding off another couple of weeks until it's stable. (and then maybe another couple of weeks while the early adopter update :-))


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